Maine College of Art to hold in-person graduation May 16
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Maine College of Art will host in-person commencement ceremonies at 10 a.m. May 16 at Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, conferring approximately 125 degrees to graduates of the college’s bachelor of fine arts, master of fine arts and master of art in teaching programs.
Artist Sonya Clark will deliver a commencement address and receive an honorary degree from Maine College of Art.
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Artist and activist Sonya Clark, perhaps best known for using human hair in her artworks about race and class, will deliver remarks. MECA will give honorary degrees to Clark, a professor of art at Amherst College in Massachusetts and visiting artist at MECA, and to philanthropist Daniel N. Crewe.
The bandoneon? What’s a bandoneon? Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 9:48 AM EDT April 30, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine Over the years hundreds and hundreds of musicians have appeared on 207. Not until now, though, have we featured one who plays the bandoneon.
Invented in Germany with the idea that it would produce an organ-like sound for marching processions, the bandoneon looks and sounds like an accordion. It never caught on in Europe, but it did in Argentina. “We adopted it and since it has a very particular sound, we used it in tango,” says Hector Del Curto, an Argentine master of the bandoneon. “It became the sound of tango, the voice of tango.”
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Montgomery: Delta is now flying bigger airplanes in and out of the capital city, and it will allow even more people aboard beginning in May. The changes are part of a plan to increase airline capacity in Montgomery toward pre-pandemic levels. The airport reported Delta started the month with bigger aircraft making the airline’s four daily flights between Montgomery and Atlanta, meaning more seats for passengers. Capacity will increase again May 1 when Delta starts allowing middle-seat passengers for the first time this year. One pandemic change that’s not going away is Delta’s new cleaning and sanitation procedures. The airline has announced that they’ll become permanent. Federal guidelines require air travelers to continue wearing masks. American Airlines resumed nonstop flights between Montgomery and Washington, D.C., earlier this month. The airport also offers nonstop flights to Charlotte, North Carolina, and to Dallas.
Maine’s fairs, and some festivals, plan to return this summer and fall
By making adjustments and preparing to pivot, many organizers of the outdoor events believe they can safely resume the traditions this year.
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Lyle Merrifield, president of the Cumberland Fair, says the fair will be held this year, though he’s not sure what it will look like.
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In another sign that Mainers may soon be able to reclaim some of the small pleasures of their pre-pandemic lives, fairgrounds around the state will open this summer and fall for folks to mingle with barnyard animals or snack on fried dough and apple crisp.